Media placement

No matter where I click the cursor or set the alignment, all my pictures group together at the top of the post. This has been going on since the "New Post" location was moved. Am I the only one having this problem? I can't imagine what I have Not tried to do to correct this.

Funny, all of my pictures end up at the BOTTOM of my posts! I use my ipad almost exclusively for posting to WordPress.com. Even when I insert the picture where I want it in the post....it just shows up under everything. Help!

I am having the same issue. For instance, if I place three images together, Left, Center and Right they look ok on the draft but when I "preview" they are all over the page. I have re-loaded from the original location, re-sized them to be the same size and they still get thrown all over the preview.

That problem is specific to Firefox 16 and upgrading to Firefox 17 seems to solve the problem. http://browsehappy.com
Another workaround is to insert images in Text mode, by clicking the Text tab next to the Visual Editor tab.

@puakostarrfish
That's a completely different issue from the one that gpcox and mindbodygolf have reported.

The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that's centered without text on either side of it. If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).

Every theme has a maximum displayed image width http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/maximum-image-width/ so it's important to keep that in mind when posting multiple images side-by-side. If you want two images to be side by side on the same line start by setting the alignment of both images to left. To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the HTML editor after each image/text pair:<p style="clear:both;">TEXT HERE</p>

I have tried them all, I believe, including the Quick Post. For example - my blog is about WWII, if I'm describing different planes I like the photo to be somewhere near the description - not all at the top.

Lately I have added Media first, going left then right. Then I lower them to begin the article - finishing up with a photo centered (because I know it will wind up on top.

It also makes it difficult to only see a print out of the photo instead of the actual picture as I am writing.

As you can see by my latest post - Fort McKinley/Manila - the pix on the bottom was entered first then I wrote above it. The two postcards were supposed to be at the top, but when I tried to add the "fighting" and "river" pix - you can see they went to the top instead of the middle.

How did you compose this post? You added your first image (at the bottom), then added in text above it, and then added your other images to the middle? That's what I want to know - how you went about adding those images (the ones that jumped).

I'm afraid we're not. 1) I inserted the bottom media, 2) began writing the article about one-quarter down from the actual begining of my hand-written article on top of the media 3) inserted the middle media - pushed down again and wrote the beginning of the article 4) inserted the top media.

I planned it all out before starting because I tried with the cursor for a test and still, all media went to the top. (I am speaking of post - Corregidor.)

In my last post, I had handwritten the article out first. Then I inserted media and pushed it down. Wrote the bottom 3/4 of the article. Inserted more media (which naturally went directly on top. I pushed it down again, wrote the top 1/4 and then inserted the final media, of course it went to the top.

I have done both, put in media from my files and put media into my gallery and then inserted.

Could you try writing your post from the top down, adding your images as you get to the spot you want them? I want to see if there's some kind of weird glitch happening because you are moving around your editor window.